Ride a Griffon and go blind?Follow

I was playing last night and grabbed a mount at the South Qeynos Gate Griffon Tower...
I sit on the bird and BLAMMMO! I go blind...
/quit characterselect
I log back in and I have a corpse trail...
Damned bird dropped me in the center of a gnoll village. They were all greens so I fought my way to the shard and recovered.

No more griffon rides for me... safer to run!

Thanks Tarv....
But when you have a black screen, how can you tell when you arrived??

Your characters have special vision that sees through the black screen????

LOL

GXM,


Thanks... I guess you guys are correct. I must have /quit too soon.


I still remember when I first was blinded in EQI...
Fighting the Lightcrawlers in the Dawnshroud Peaks...
I rebooted my computer. My guildies laughed for weeks after that!

Elodarian, Ranger of Tunare
66th Season
Veeshan Server
Guardians of Veeshan

That's a known bug and randomly happens to everyone. It's happened to me about 3 times and I'm a 29 ranger who's used the Griffon often. One time I waited a while before I logged cause I simply didn't realize what was going on, the other two right away, and neither time I died, but that was alos 25+ so if I fell I didn't fall from high enough position to kill me I guess.

yep. its happened since release. ive had it happen to me as well.

For those that say, he quit too soon, nope. This happened to me night before last. I get on bird at Freeport Station, BAM blind. I can see my movement per fog on the map, but my red arrow is gone. I get the move off message and can't seem to even "fall" off the landing spot. I restart comp and end up in a wasps nest about 1/2 the way back. Needless to say I ran around the zone for damn near 20 minutes and like 15 damn wasps followed me the whole time. I finally had to zone into Nek to get rid of them.

I always thought on eq1 you should have still been able to see your chat window while blind. I mean you lost your sigh, not your hearing (which is basically what the chat window was on eq1, your sense of sound.

Of course when you blinded a mob they could still track you down anywhere in the zone.

In response to the topic here, I have never had a problem with Griffons taking me anywhere, and I use them every day *Knocks on wood*. I have learned from this thread if I do for some reason have my screen black out that I should wait a few minutes before /quit so I don't fall to my death.

If he's blinded how can he see a message on the screen...lol. I just waited a while first and then type in /camp...if I am on the board it will go to the char screen if not then I am not there yet and have to wait.

Well, I have yet to get blinded while riding a griffon, but I did get shortstopped on the way to the tower... Towards the end of the trip, the griffen just stopped short of the tower.. Approxomitely about 50 feet.. (I figured that was about it, cause if you layed my character head to toe about 10 times you would then be at the tower).. The Griffin flapps his wings a bit then wala I am standing in mid air, it was kinda funny until I moved foward a bit, then whoosh... I fell for a large amount of damage, it had 1/2 a bar of health left hehe, luckily I was level 20 so I lived, but any lower and I would have been bird droppings.

For the comment about video card, that can't be it. I have a very high end card and system. I can play two instances of EQ2 at the same time without lag. This has only happened to me once, but has also been occuring to other guild mates. I feel this is a server side issue.